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The parents of a one-year-old girl who was found dead inside a car outside a childcare centre yesterday have said they are trying to deal with the "unimaginable" tragedy.

Emergency services were called to Marana Road in Earlwood in the Inner West at 5.35pm yesterday after the girl was found unresponsive inside the car.

Today the parents of the girl released a statement as police continue the investigation.

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"It is an unimaginable time of sorrow for us," it read.

They described the toddler as a sweet and beautiful baby, who was "the light of their lives".

Local Amin Moussa told 9News the father of the girl started screaming when he found his baby unresponsive in the back of the car.

"My parents lived next door and they were first on the scene when they heard the howls of the father screaming… they were just shocked when they saw the father holding the lifeless body of the one-year-old child."

Moussa said the local community had been rocked by the death.

"Look it's very traumatic, very confronting, very stressful, any parent would be absolutely distressed by what happened," Moussa said.

"The father was beside himself, I think, upon the realisation that the child was left in the car.

"It's sent a shockwave through the community, through the street."

A neighbour rushed to the childcare centre to render first aid to the child while waiting for paramedics.

Locals today left flowers at the scene.

Executive officer at Kids Safe NSW Christine Erskine said the often deadly mistake of leaving a child inside a car happens all too often.

"Nobody intends for this to happen, it's just an awful, preventable tragedy," she said.

"We find that this happens when there's an interruption or a change in plan.

"The NRMA last year reported about 1900 near misses – that's a lot."

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She said temperatures inside cars can increase to deadly conditions extremely quickly.

"Even in cooler times or under a tree, that temperature in a car can escalate very, very quickly," she said.

"It might be 30 degrees outside – well, it would be 70 degrees in the car very quickly."

The girl's father was taken to hospital suffering shock.

The child's mother is also helping police.

Police said they were looking into the timeline of what happened and would speak to the child's father when they were able to.

The man has been charged by police with dangerous driving.

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Police are investigating reports of looting in flood-affected towns in North Queensland and will deploy extra patrols to the region.

As relentless rainfall caused floods across the north, residents were forced to either evacuate their homes or take necessary precautions if they chose to remain. 

Since Sunday, police have received three reports of looting and damage at evacuated homes in Ingham, Railway Estate and Rosslea.

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Townsville Superintendent Chris Lawson said high-visibility anti-looting patrols are being conducted across North Queensland, including Townsville and surrounding areas.

"The Queensland Police Service has zero tolerance for stealing, especially during a disaster," he said.

"I am disgusted by these reports of people in our community taking advantage of this weather event and the devastation it has caused across our region.

"As we move into the recovery phase, police will continue to target offenders and hold them responsible for their actions."

Extra police have been deployed to flood zones this week and are conducting 24-hour patrols to deter anti-social and criminal behaviour.

Investigations are ongoing and anyone whose home may have been targeted is urged to contact police.

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North Queensland, particularly Townsville and Ingham, has seen hundreds of millimetres of daily rainfall which has caused minor to major flooding across the region since last week.

Two people, a 63-year-old woman and an 82-year-old woman, have died in the floodwaters and a man remains missing in Ingham.

Ingham remains inundated with homes still at least partially submerged in floodwaters. Residents who evacuated are still unable to return.

Townsville residents who earlier evacuated have been told it is safe to return home.

According to the Bureau of Meteorology, the worst of the deluge is over but thunderstorms are forecast for the coming days.

Premier David Crisafulli today reiterated that the region is still in a state of emergency and urged residents to follow the advice of authorities.

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New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the lunar far side.

That's good news for scientists and NASA, which is looking to land astronauts at the south pole on the near, Earth-facing side untouched by that impact and containing older rocks in original condition.

US and British scientists used photos and data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to map the area and calculate the path of debris that produced these canyons about 3.8 billion years ago.

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They reported their findings on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST) in the journal Nature Communications.

The incoming space rock passed over the lunar south pole before hitting, creating a huge basin and sending streams of boulders hurtling at a speed of nearly one kilometre a second.

The debris landed like missiles, digging out two canyons comparable in size to Arizona's Grand Canyon in barely 10 minutes.

The latter, by comparison, took millions of years to form.

“This was a very violent, a very dramatic geologic process,” said lead author David Kring of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.

Kring and his team estimate the asteroid was 25 kilometres across and that the energy needed to create these two canyons would have been more than 130 times that in the world’s current inventory of nuclear weapons.

Most of the ejected debris was thrown in a direction away from the south pole, Kring said.

That means NASA’s targeted exploration zone around the pole mostly on the moon's near side won’t be buried under debris, keeping older rocks from four billion plus years ago exposed for collection by moonwalkers.

These older rocks can help shed light not only on the moon’s origins, but also Earth’s.

Kring said it’s unclear whether these two canyons are permanently shadowed like some of the craters at the moon’s south pole.

“That is something that we’re clearly going to be reexamining,” he said.

Permanently shadowed areas at the bottom of the moon are thought to hold considerable ice, which could be turned into rocket fuel and drinking water by future moonwalkers.

NASA’s Artemis program, the successor to Apollo, aims to return astronauts to the moon this decade.

The plan is to send astronauts around the moon next year, followed a year or so later by the first lunar touchdown by astronauts since Apollo.

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